What The Birds Accomplish

J. ue awaiiow, swilt and mght-hawk are tin guardians of the atmosphere. They deck tho increase of the iusects which therwise would overloiul it. Woodpfckers, ereepers and chickadeos are tlw guardiaiiR of tho trunks of trees. Varblersand fly-catchers protect the folie. Black-birds, crows, tlmiMhcs and lark protect the surface of the soil. Snipe aul woodcock protect tlie aoil under Ha surfaco. Eacn tribo has its respect! duties to perform in the economy of nature ; and it is an undoubtcd act that, if the birds were all swept off Jie face of the earth, man conld not live upon it; vegetation would withcr atl die ; insects would become i so numeiifB that no living thing conld withstandtheir attaoks. The wholesale destructioi occasioned by grasshoppeté, which hay latelj devastated tho We$t of the Uuted States, is causecl by the i thinning mt of the birds, suèh as I gronse, fflirie-hens, etc, which feed npon them 'j'he gi-eat and inestimable service dfle to tho farmer, gnrduner and ilorist jy the birds is only becoming knownby sad expericthr. Spare the birds n navo your fruit; the little corn n)id fr.it taken by them is more tlirin conrpásated by the quantities of ücixioiis iifects they destroy. The long-persected crow lias been found, by actual ejeríment, to do far more good by tli vast quantities of grubs and insectsjhe devonrs, than the little hanu he dos in the few grains of corn hc pulls up. He is onc of tho farmcis' best friends.